Intro -- Table of Contents -- Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity -- A tale of no cities -- The children of Cain -- Faith and the city in the 4&lt -- sup&gt -- th&lt -- /sup&gt -- century CE -- Intellectualizing religion in the cities of the Roman Empire -- The city of the dead or: the making of a cultural geography -- A new "topography of devotion" -- City of prophecies -- Creating a city of believers: Rabbula of Edessa -- Sacred spaces and new cities in the Byzantine East -- Roman baths as locations of religious practice -- Index.

RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)--contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning--and engages them from a critical historical perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematically focused edited volumes on specific topics and cases as well as comparative work across historical periods from the ancient world to the modern era.

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